Dina, Razan After completing this chapter, students will be able to: - Understand the nature of the control cycle and four key steps in a general project control model. - Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of common project evaluation and control methods. - Understand how Earned Value Management can assist project tracking and evaluation. - Use Earned Value Management for project portfolio analysis. - Understand behavioral concepts and other human issues in evaluation and control.
- Control Cycle - a general model
- Monitoring Project Performance
- Earned Value Management
Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Control – What is the difference?
It can take some time to understand the difference between the big three, that are often misunderstood by managers as a separate activity, often referred to as M&E. Often within large development projects, M&E run separately from the project implementation team. Its important for those involved to understand their roles and responsibilities and that project reporting can occur in addition to M&E activities, which might not be the case in other commercial projects. Ideally a development project would have these activities tightly integrated with project managers working very closely with M&E personnel to avoid conflict between these two areas of an operation. M&E activities can occur months after a project has transitioned and closed. Here is how I learnt to differentiate: Monitor the work, Evaluate the results, then Controlthe changes needed for continual improvement.
Progress Monitoring - Passively watching, changes nothing, continuous review,Activities and Outputs – Lower Levels of the Logical Framework.
Evaluating at a higher level within the Logical framework – Goals and Outcomes that take some thought and expertise to analyse.
Control the decisions and changes made as a result to manage variances identified during implementation
evaluation:
analysis of completed or ongoing activities that determine or support management accountability , effectiveness and efficiency.
Factors to evaluate
Stakeholder engagement
Outcomes and impacts
Benefits
Learning
Effectiveness of the project
Types of Evaluations: Formative A formative evaluation is a method for judging the worth of a program while the program activities are forming (in progress). This part of the evaluation focuses on the process.
Formative Evaluation questions:
Have milestones been met on schedule?
What is holding up progress?
What should we do to correct this?
Is project management effective?
Summative A summative evaluation is a method of judging the worth of a program at the end of the program activities. The focus is on the outcome.
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
- Understand the nature of the control cycle and four key steps in a general project control model.
- Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of common project evaluation and control methods.
- Understand how Earned Value Management can assist project tracking and evaluation.
- Use Earned Value Management for project portfolio analysis.
- Understand behavioral concepts and other human issues in evaluation and control.
- Control Cycle - a general model
- Monitoring Project Performance
- Earned Value Management
Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Control – What is the difference?
It can take some time to understand the difference between the big three, that are often misunderstood by managers as a separate activity, often referred to as M&E. Often within large development projects, M&E run separately from the project implementation team.Its important for those involved to understand their roles and responsibilities and that project reporting can occur in addition to M&E activities, which might not be the case in other commercial projects. Ideally a development project would have these activities tightly integrated with project managers working very closely with M&E personnel to avoid conflict between these two areas of an operation. M&E activities can occur months after a project has transitioned and closed.
Here is how I learnt to differentiate: Monitor the work, Evaluate the results, then Controlthe changes needed for continual improvement.
evaluation:
analysis of completed or ongoing activities that determine or support management accountability , effectiveness and efficiency.
Factors to evaluate
Types of Evaluations:
Formative
A formative evaluation is a method for judging the worth of a program while the program activities are forming (in progress). This part of the evaluation focuses on the process.
Formative Evaluation questions:
Summative
A summative evaluation is a method of judging the worth of a program at the end of the program activities. The focus is on the outcome.
Summative Evaluation questions: